Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-13
QUIET RESTORED.
Peace Again Prevails Over
Turbulent Island of
Honolulu.
Anger of The Citizens League Cool
ing off-.-Threatened the Life
Of the King.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. BY the ar
rival of the steamer Australia, Honolulu
adyices are received to August 2. No
change has occurred in the interval
since the arrival of the last mail. Mr.. b..
G. Jones, who is one Of the leaders OF the
Citizens League, and one of the richest
merchants on the island, arrived on this
steamer and said he had great difficulty
in preventing the younger men or the
league from storming the palace and
killing the king. They were eager to
lynch Gibson also, and were only re-
strained by the appeals OF their officers.
The king had spies out and when they
brought him news that unless he signed
the constitution his life would not be
worth a penny, he weakened and lost his
braggadocio. Mr.. Jones added:
81 was not there the day Gibson (the
deposed premier) left for San Francisco,
but / understand that If he did not act
ually run away he lost no time in leav-
ing. He had better not go back there
either. I never saw a man come 80 near
losing his life as he did. Why, the boys
were looking for a rope for him one day,
duu we ndu 10 DtB t1lcul uOO W u0 ally
thing of the sort"
'tSinee Gibson left the minister of
finance has been looking over accounts,
age of about So, 600. That is what they
expected when they had Gibson arrested,
but they could not. find it then to sustain
this charge made. This shortage was in
the Chinese immigration tax account.
Efuaru Chiran,ap cnraipn tn tho iolondo
was formerly charged $40, and there was
q good chance for defalcation in these ac-
counts.'
1.-THE day I left, the I'd inst, Hazel
dean, Gibson's son-in-law, was arrested
on three charges of forgery, malfeasance
in Office and embezzlement I do not
know any more about the charges thar
that they had something to do with the
tax assessors Office or the collection of
taxes
The queen arrived in Honolulu on the
26th of last month. She was received
very quietly, The king and band and
the new ministers were down at the
wharf to meet her.
sour league now numbers about sixty
members, comprising men from all
classes, but including all the best foreign
residents. There are also in it OILS or two
| native Hawaiians. 1t has been organ
ICED on q permanent basis and will be
continued as a secret prospective organi-
| cation. l can not tell you who the officers
are, because that is kept secret.n
THE king and Gibson had no force to
support them at the beginning of the
| trouble. All the Kanakas fled and Glib
son offered one man 800 if he would get
some men to carry rifles for him, but
none could be obtained.
81 believe matters will get on all
smoothly now If they don't the boys
will be ready for them"
From a private letter it is Harmed that
much Of the venom infused into the reyo.
luton against the king is due to the dis.
appointed ambition of Col. Volney S. Ash
ford, the captain of the Honolulu rifles,
an independent military organization,
which had always been treated with
great favor by the king. Ashford and
his brother, c. w. Ashford, the present
attorney general, are both ambitious.
Capt. Ashford tried to be elected to the
legislature at the last election, but failed
and he attributed his failure to the
treachery of PRIMER Gibson, but it was
really due to his distribution of cir
among the natives, which disguised al
the planters.
Gibson began to fear Ashford, backed
up as he was by the rifles. So he tried
to disband the rifles, but failed, when ht
tried to bride Ashford by offering him 6
position as commissioner to promote trade
with Canada. On the day before the
great mass meeting of June 90, Gibson
sent a letter appointing Ashford Cana.
dian commissioner snd iuclosing a draft
for 81, 800 for expenses and a check OF
Consul General Mckinly in San Fran
cisco for SD, 500, the balance of the salar,
of So, 900 per year. This draft for 81, 5O(
was paid to Ashford, and Gibson, feeling
now that he had got rid of his only strons
enemy, began to form a new ministry,
The king was equally confident, and In
fact he ordered out the rifles to preserv,
order at the very meeting which led tx
the formation of the new constitution.
Ashford, with the bride in his pocket
turned traitor and made the bittsrest
speech at the meeting. The men unde,
him did not know of the compact will
the king and Gibson, or they would no
have acted as his tools. Ashford has no
yet returned the 81, 500, nor has he mad,
any o to do work as commissioners IL
Canada. His brother is the ruling powe,
in the cabinet, and between them the,
are now running the Hawaiian govern
mant. The discovery of these facts hal
done much to disgust those who believed
in the sincerity of the leading revolu
tionists, and troubles in the ministry ar,
f~oreshadowed as a result of the discover,
of Ashford's double dealing.
There is a strong opposition to the pay
ment of the 5000, 900 commission of til,
London syndicate for floating the 81.
o00, 600 loan, and it is probable no com
mission will be allowed. The Portuguese
have been notified to register with theil
consul general, and IL they turn out ana
unite with the Kanakas they will con
troll the election.
The wheat crop in Minnesota and Da
kota proves to be the largest on record
and superior III quality to any gathered
since 1883. The amount in store at Min
neapolis, st. Paul and Duluth declinei
337, 600 bushels last week. The recaint,